LIT 5038-Fall 2025-Kimbrell

This course will feature an intensive study of prosody and poetic form, focusing both on canonical and contemporary poetry. Participants will become fluent with the basic vocabulary of prosody, master scansion, and write their own original poems in any number of received forms. Apart from the nuts and bolts of form, we will also consider the evolution of prosody and form in more recent examples, exploring the ways contemporary poets employ traditional forms to both revise, re-shape, and extend their respective traditions.